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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2012
Applicants:

Angeliki Alexiou, Swindon, GB;

Federico Boccardi, Swindon, GB;

Howard C. Huang, New York, NY (US);

Inventors:

Angeliki Alexiou, Swindon, GB;

Federico Boccardi, Swindon, GB;

Howard C. Huang, New York, NY (US);

Assignee:

Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 25/03 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 25/03343 (2013.01); H04B 7/0639 (2013.01); H04B 7/0478 (2013.01); H04L 2025/03802 (2013.01); H04L 2025/03414 (2013.01); H04L 2025/03426 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention provides methods implemented in a base station having a plurality of antennas and one or more user terminals. One embodiment of the method includes receiving feedback from at least one user in response to transmitting a first frame to said at least one user. The first frame is formed by pre-coding at least one symbol using at least one first code word selected from at least one first code book associated with the at least one user. The method also includes transmitting at least one second frame to the user(s). The second frame(s) are pre-coded using at least one second codeword selected from at least one second codebook. The second codebook(s) determined based on the feedback and the first codeword(s).


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